Kaeja d'Dance Presents ‘Bird’s Eye View’

Kaeja d'Dance presents ‘Bird’s Eye View’ at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, on Saturday September 29, 2007, from 7:03 PM to 7:14 AM.

Conceived by Karen Kaeja (Kaeja d'Dance), and co-directed with Diana Groenendijk, BIRD’S EYE VIEW has been invited to take over the Casa Loma Stables for Nuit Blanche. In a two-part dance movement installation, audience members will witness performances by more than twenty-five of Toronto’s finest dancers who will illuminate the stable’s carriage room and stalls all night long. Every half hour, 6 solo dancers in elaborate costumes will simultaneously transform the stalls into a riveting work of spontaneous living art.

There will be also be a meditative moving installation in the carriage room that incorporates audience participation through easy entry and exit. BIRD’S EYE VIEW invites the participants to be the instruments in the creation of contemporary art, inspiring a sense of connection, integration and creativity. People who prefer to watch will find it calming, arresting and beautiful. An original score will be composed for BIRD’S EYE VIEW by Edgardo Moreno and a new photo exhibit by Walter Lai. There will be a video installation in the windows of the stables by The Residents.

Karen Kaeja is included in the Canadian Who's Who encyclopedia, and has won the Moving Pictures Award for Best Performance and the 2005 Paul D. Fleck Fellowship as one of Canada’s innovative artists of excellence. She has been nominated for the 10th annual American Choreography Awards and teaches at Universities throughout North America. She has curated and performed in many Improvisational and performance concerts. Currently she is feature in sixteen dance films which garner international awards, a Gemini nomination, and a 2006 Banff World Television Award nomination.

BIRD’S EYE VIEW dancers include: Piotr Biernat, Sylvie Bouchard, Tanya Crowder, Louis Labèrge-Côte, Meagan O’Shea, Susan Lee, Eryn Dace Trudell, Robin McPhail, Diana Groenendijk, Karen Kaeja, William Yong, Lisa Pijuan-Nomura, Marie-France Forcier, Emily Tench, Jennifer Lecuyer, Lina M. Jimenez, Amy Hampton, Cara Spooner, Tina Fushell, Kiri Figueiredo, Julia Wyncoll, Allen Kaeja, Skye Nicolson, Evadne Kelly, among others. -- www.kaeja.org

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